brethren, and command with them, and with all the family of the house of bus ther's father, saying, B. C. 1909.1 v. 15, 56,57. what is good whethet, &c. Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all mes of Stechen, Whether is better Bir you, either that all the sons of Jerab ful, sich are threewore and tea perich. 8. 30. reover you, or that one reign e 2 Sa 20.14. ther you remember also that I am your ed and your Best. And his mother's brethren spake of into the ears of all the men of Shechem these words: and their hearts inlied to flow Abimelech; for they He is our brother. Ge. 29. 14. 1 Kl. 12. 15 Aat they gave him threescore and ten fiver out of the bouse of Baal-be-g vorva Abimelech hired vain at perces, which followed him. And he went onto his father's house Oprah, and dewk bis brethren, the bethal, bring threescore and per coe stone: not withyan the youngest son of wan; for he hid himself. Adat of Shechem gathered her, ad the house of Millo, and es, and made Abimelech king, by the i Es. 9. 26. ch. 8. 23. strengthen- to kill. Jos 8.33. the jailer that was in Shechem, 7 dad wars they told it to Jotham, and stood in the top of mount I Gen and Luitel up bis voice, and Jn. 4. 20. and and unto them, Hearken unto to of Shechem, that God may hakes me you. or, songs, went forth on a time to m ver. 4. sung over them; and they said # 2 ki. 14.9. vetree, Reign thou over us. 1 Sa. 23. 10. x the slive-tree said unto them, 1 Ki. 12. 16. care my fatness, wherewith p Ge. 34.2, 6. ry hoteur God and man, and 7 Ps. 104. 15. be promoted over the trees? 2S 15. 4. ad the trees said to the fig-tree, Leth, and reign over us. Should I forsake my sweetness, and my Tim wil the trees unto the vine, 14 The all the trees unto the drable Cory bod, and reign over us. 13 Audible said unto the trees, If Ps. 10. 3. down for A craftily, or, Ps. 31. 6. or, thistle. f Is. 30. 2. Da. 4. 12. od devour the cedars" of Lebanon.! shall And. 25.8. Ee. 9. 10. way father fought for you, and cast. Serred his life far, and delivered ver. 5, 6. ch. 8. 35. of the band of Midian; be as day, and have slain his ye' are ren up against my fa-y ch. 8. 31. Pbi. 3. 3. 20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Mill, and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech, 21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. 22 When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, 23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of She chem; and the men of Shechem/ dealt treacherously with Abimelech : 24 That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which daided him in the killing of his brethren. 25 And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech. 26 And Gaal, the son of Ebed, came with his brethren, and went over to She chem and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him. 27 And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. 28 And Gaal, the son of Ebed, said, Who Abimelech, and who is Shechern, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his othcer? serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem; for why should we serve him! 29 And would to God this people were under my hand! then would remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out. 30 And when Zebul, the ruler of the city, heard the words of Gaal, the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. melech A privily, saying, Behold, Gaal, 31 And he sent messengers unto Abi the son of Ebed, and his brethren, be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee. 32 Now, therefore, up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie In wait in the field: 33 And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city; and, behold, when he and the people that is with hum do to them as thou shalt find occasion. come out against thee, then mayest thou 34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. 35 And Gaal, the son of Ebed, went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the peo. ple that were with him, from lying in wait. 36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were or, the re-men. garders of the times. De. 18. 14. navel. and are made Abimelech, the son enre and ten persons, upon one z Is. 8, 6, Wiederaut, king over the men of can, because be it your brother;) 19th have dealt truly and sinrely with rubbeal and with his house! is day, the rice ye in Abimelech, let him as rejoice in you; 37 And Gaal spake again, and said, See, there come people down by the p middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of a Meonenim. CHAP. X. wher Abutelech there HOT STA Zooa the son of 2x flexor a man of Issach ervet #shammount Epl HIS TOGA Israel twenty CLAN Om and was buried in Is her tum arose Jar a G srae twenty and tv scot je bad thy sons that 25-0035. 20nd they had thi MTE CALLING & Harots-jair the land of Gil or Diet & was buried i ta be sent the LORD, The AM The Bo Zoom, and De andren of Is 2配 JUDGES, X. A. M. 2798. ver 925 150,97. 2K1.14.8. 14. Je. etal. ch.4.1.-6.1.-13.1. A.M.2799. B.C. 1905 An. Ex Is.286. Baalim, ch.2.11.14-37. Ch. 9.23. Ps.106.36. the gods of Zidon. 1 Kill 5,7, 33.-16.31. 2 Ki.17.16,29..31.-23.13. the gods of the Philistines. ch.16.23. 1 Sa.5 2. 2 K1.1.2,3. Je. 2.13. Eze 16 23.26. ha le fed before : K1.90.18 21.30. Am The pare appears from the next to have been tear Shechem; and is per the same as Ruma, a village of Galilee, med by JOSEPHUS, Bell. i. i. c. 9. ver 29.31. froad ver 15,90. Ga5.15. Year, ver 09, bear. De 29.23, 1 K.12.95. PL 34, marg. Eze.47.11. Zep 2.9. ved, Salt in small quantities renders #extremely fertile; but too much of it devegetation. Every place, says PLINY, her salt is found is barren, and produces Hence the sowing of a place with salt! diferent nations to express ddar SIGONILS observes, that as was taken, A.D. 116, the walls ind it was worn with salt. And ARTUTE WETUS us, that it was an ancient fure to the house of a man with hat sees seclared a traitor to his king. of France, the most base and Laman beings, caused the house www.fogar whom he and the Duke of to be murdered, with thousands terrauts, ca the eve of St. Barthoto be warm with salt! er 127 Ch 8. 33. 1 Ki.18.26. £ Ki. alle 15.18.-37.38. Ps.fi. 14. What ye. ch.7.17,18. made. Heb. I have done. Tver 15.90. Ga.5.15. J4.3.16 According to EUSEBIUS, thirteen Mechers, towards Scythopolis. Kl.10.-15.16. 15,90. 2 Sa.11.21.-20.21. Job 40-50,45, and all to. An antiquated meaning fall intention' to comAll to, observes Dr. JOHN particle of mere enforcement.' The trict eth guigalto, which is simLXX reader, και έκλασε το κρα and we brake his skull.' PLC Wates, at Pyrrhus was killed at the bes, by a piece of a tile, which a op his head. 1.31.4.5. And his young man, ce to he killed by a woman. 2-20.21,99 1 Ki.22.35,36. Pr. Both the fratricide Abime enripled men of Shechem had d upon them of which they Man's judgment may be there is no escape from that of macy buses have been sown with ce, by the just judgment of God, acre of the Protestants on the eve new! See Note en ver.45-ver P.12.-11.6-58.10,11.-94.23. 7. Ac.8.4. Ga.6.7. Re.19.20,21. ver 0,45 Jos.6.26. 1 Ki.16.34. CHAP. X. leel in Shamir, 1, 2. Jair, whose bed thirty cifics, 3-5. The Philistines te prem lerael, 6–9. In their andrth them to their false gods, Up their repentaner he pitieth them, E.C.1232. An. Ex.Is.259. arose. 7 was hot, ch.2.14. De.29.20..28.-31.16..18 32.16.22. Jos.23.15,16. Ps.74.1. Na.1.2,6. he sold. ch.4.2. 1 Sa.12.9,10. Ps.44.12. Is.30.1. 8 that year ver.5. 18.30.13. 1 Th.5.3. oppressed. Heb. crushed. 9 passed. ch.3.12.13-6 3..5. gCh.149.-20.1,2. distressed. De 28.65, 1 Sa.28.15.2 Ch.15.5. 10 cried. ch.3.9. 1 Sa.12.10. Ps.106.43,44.-107. 13,19.. 11 Did not I ch.2.1.3. Egyptians. Fx.14.30. 1 Sa.12.8. Ne.9.9.11. Ps.78.51. 53-106.8..11. He.11.29. Amorites. Nu.21.21..25.15. Ps.135. 10.11. children. ch.3.11..15. Philistines. ch. 3.31. 12 Zidonians. ch.5.19, &c. Amalekites, ch. 6.3. the Maonites. The LXX. have the Midianites, which Dr. WALL thinks the true reading. But the Maonites might be a tribe of Arabs, inhabitants of Maon, Cos. 15.55 1.Sa. 23 24.25.-25.2,) which assisted Moab. 2Ch.26. 6,7. Ps.106.42,43. 13 ch.2.12. De.32.15. 1 Ch.28.9. Je.2.13. Jon. 2.8. 14 De.32.26..28,37,38. 1 Ki.18.27,28. 2 k1.3 13. Pr.1.25. 27. Is.10.3. Je... 15 We have sinned. 2 Sa.12.13.-24.10. Job 33. 27. Pr.28.13. 1 In°.1.8..10. do thou, Jos.9.25. 1 Sa.3.18. 2 Sa.10.12.-15.26. Jo.2.4.-3.9. seemeth, &c. Heb. is good in thine eyes. deliver. 2 Sa.21.14. Job 34.31,32, 16 they put. 2 Ch.7.14.-15.8.-33.15. Je.187,8. Eze.18.30..32. Ho.14.1.3,8. gods of strangers. strange gods. Heb. his soul. Ge.6.6. Ps.106.44, 45. Is.63.9. Je.31.20. Ho.11.8. Lu.15.20 --19 41. Jn.11.34 Ep. 4.32. He.3.10.-4.15. grieved. Heb. shortened. Not that there is any grief in God he has infinite joy and happiness in himself, which cannot be broken in upon by either the sins or the miseries of his creatures. there is any change in God; for he is of one Not that mind, and who can turn him? But his good. ness is his glory; by it he proclaims his name, and magnifies it-and as he is pleased to put himself into the relation of a father to his people, so he is pleased to represent his good. ness to them by the compassion of a father to his children; for as he is the Father of lights, so is he the Father of mercies. 17 gathered together. Heb. cried together. Mizpeh. ch.11.11.29. Ge.31.49. 18 What man. ch.1.1.-11.5.8. 1.3.1..8.-34. 12. he shall be. ch.11.11.-12.7. 1 Sa 17.25. CHAP. XI. The covenant between Jephthah and the Gileadites, that he should be their head, 1-11. The treaty of peace between him and the Ammonites is in egin, 12-28 Jephthah's now, 20 31. His conquest of the Ammonites, 32, 33. He performeth his vow on his daughter, 34-40. 1 Jephthah. Heb. 11. 32, called Jephthae. mighty. ch.6.12. K1.5.1. an harlot. Heb. a woman, an harlot.-Probably tonah should be rendered, as in Jos.2.1, a hostess, or inn-keeper: so Targum of Jonathan, wehoo bar uttetha pundekeetha, and he was the son of a woman, a tavern keeper." She was very probably a Ca quad, or, deliver. Heb, save. naanite, as she is called, ver.2, a strange woman, ishah achereth, a woman of another race;' and on this account his brethren drove him from the family, as not having a full right to the inhe B.C. 1909. An. Ex.Is. 282. a Wadi-12.14. called. Nu.32.41. De. ritance. 176 did 2 thrust out. Ge.21.10. De 23.2. Ga.4. 30. strange. Pr.2.16.-5.3,20.-6.24..26. Abimelech's vengeance, and death. JUDGES, XI. Israel oppressed by the Ammonites. 38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where is B. C. 1206.) the son of Jerubbaal. a Who is Abimelech, that we should serve a ver. 28, 29. AND after Abimelech there arose, t now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, him? Is not this the people that thou hast despised go out, I pray now, and fight with them. 39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. 40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate. 3 save, or, b ch. 5. 10. c De. 3. 14. or, the vil- Nu. 32. 41. 41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah : and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his breth-deh. ren,that they should not dwell in Shechem. 42 And it came to pass on the morrow that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech. 43 And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. 44 And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them. 3. 7. 4. 1. 6. 1. 13. 1. e 1 Ki. 11. 33. 1Sa.12.9,10. i in Ps. 68. 14. CHAP. X. B defend Israel, Tola the son of Pual the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; an he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim 2 And he judged Israel twenty and the years, and died, and was buried in Sham 3 And after him arose Jair a Gileadi and judged Israel twenty and two yea 4 And he had thirty sons that rode thirty ass-colts, and they had thirty cit which are called y Havoth-jair unto day, which are in the land of Gilead. 5 And Jair died, & was buried in Ca 6 Andd the children of Israel did again in the sight of the LORD, and ser Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods f ria, and the gods of Zidon, and the go Moab, and the gods of the children of mon, and the gods of the Philistines, forsook the LORD, and served not hi 7 And the anger of the LORD wa against Israel, and he sold them the hands of the Philistines, and int hands of the children of Ammon. 8 And that year they vexed and pressed the children of Israel eigh years, all the children of Israel that on the other side Jordan, in the lab the Amorites, which is in Gilead. 9 Moreover, the children of An 25.passed over Jordan to fight also Judah, and against Benjamin, and a the house of Ephraim; so that was sore distressed. 45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day: and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. i 46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into p ch.3.12.15, an hold of the house of the god Berith, & 31. 47 And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. 48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done. I have 9 ch. 5. 19. u De 32.37.38. 49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abin melech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. 50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. is good in thine eyes. 2 Ch.7.14. 15.8. 10 And the children of Israel cried the LORD, saying, We have sinneda thee, both because we have forsake God, and also served Baalim. 11 And ye LORD said unto the child Israel, Did not I deliver you from y tians," & from the Amorites, from y dren of Ammon, and from the Philly 12 The Zidonians also, and the lekites, and the Maonites did you; and ye cried to me, and I de you out of their hand. 13 Yetye have forsaken me, and other gods; wherefore I will deliv no more. • gods of 14 Go and cry unto the gods w strangers.have chosen; let them deliver shortened. the time of your tribulation. Ps.106.44,45 15 And the children of Israe! $ the LORD, We have sinned; do the us whatsoever n seemeth good deliver us only, we pray thee, this 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men & women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, & gat them up to the top of the tower.x 52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. 53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to break his skull. 54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his armour-bearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place. 18. 63. 9. 2 Sa. 11. 21. # 1 Sa. 31. 4. b He. 11. 32. ch. 6. 12. 2 Ki. 5. 1. a woman, 16 And they put away" the gods from among them, and LORD: and his soul was gree the misery of Israel. 17 Then ye children of Amment thered together, and encamped in and the children of Israel assemble selves together, and encamped 18 And the people and princes of said one to another, What man i an harlot. will begin to fight against the chil Ammon? he shall be bead over inhabitants of Gilead. d ver. 24. Job 31.3. e ver. 20, 45. 56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: 57 And all the evil of the men of She- ƒ Ge. 21. 10. chem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham Ga. 4.30. CHAP. XI. Now Jephthah & the Gileadite mighty man of valour, and he was of an harlot; and Gilead begat J 2 And Gilead's wife bare him w his wife's sons grew up, and the out Jephthah, and said unto hi shalt not inherit in our father's h 2. JUDGES, X. 15 ver.28.29. 28. 226,97. 2 K.148..14. Je. ; evil. ch.4.1.-6.1.-13.1. # he fed before. 1 K1.90.18 21.3. 41 damak, This place appears from the next sarse to have been near Shecbem; and is perlaps the same as Ruma, a village of Galilee, Testoned by JOSEPHUS, Bell. I. ii. c. 9. Zed, ver 8.30. 44 voked forward, ver.15,20. Ga.5.15. ver 4,07. ch.8.33. 1 Ki.18.26. 2 Ki. B. ver. 13,90. 2 Sa.11.21.-20.21. Job Grendered. Both the fratricide Abime In their Inel in Shamir, 1, 2. Jair, whose TAX B.C. 1232. Au. Ex. Is.259. arose. -19 defend. er, deliver. Heb. save. TAVO BC. 1209. An. Ex.Is. 282. this -214. called. Nu.32.41. De. did | An. Ex Is.26. A. M. 2798 A.M.2799. B.C. 1905. 33.-16.31. 2 Ki.17-16,29..31.-23.13. the gods of Baalim, ch.211.14-37.2 Ch. the Philistines. ch.16.23. 1 Sa.5 2. 2 K1.1.2,3. Je. 28.23. Ps.106.36. the gods of Zidon. 1 Kill 5,7, 2.13. Eze. 16 25,26. he 7 was hot, ch.2.14. De.29.20..28.-31.16..18.- distressed. De 28.65. 1 Sa. 28.15. 2 Ch.15.5. 13,19,28. 11 Did not I ch.2.1..3. Egyptians. Ex.14.30. 12 Zidonians, ch.5.19, &c. 6.3. 1 Sa. 13 ch.2.12. De.32.15. 1 Ch.26.9. Je.2.13. Joa. 2.8. 14 De.32.26..28,37,38. 1 Ki.18.27,28. 2 Ki.3.13. Pr.1.25. 27. Is.10.3. Je.2.28. seem deliver. 15 We have sinned. 2 Sa.12.13.-24.10. Job 33. Mizpeh. ch.11.11.29. Ge.31.49. 12. he shall be. ch.11.11.-12.7. 1 Sa 17.25. The covenant between Jephthah and the Gileadites, 1 Jephthah. Heb. 11. 32, called Jephthae. 2 thrust out. Ge.21.10. De 23.2. Ga.4. 30. 4 |